Write an editorial newspaper article offering your opinion on wildfire management, prescribed fire or another fire issue (in your area or elsewhere). You will need to do some additional research. Find information on a fire management plan, or information on a wildfire issue in your area or elsewhere in the world. You may find some useful information at the national database of state and local wildfire programs website: www.wildfireprograms.com/index.html . Here are some questions you might consider (you do not have to use the following questions):

1. Does the wildfire management plan in your area or in the U.S. seem effective to you?
2. Does your local forest or the U.S. government spend too much money or not enough money on wildfire management?
3. Should people be allowed to build homes or businesses near public forest lands? And if they are allowed to do so, is the federal, state, county, city government responsible for protecting their homes from a wildfire?
4. What suggestions would you make on wildfire management? (Do you have any recommendations to make to the U.S. Forest Service or your local forest?)
5. What are your thoughts on prescribed fires? Consider the following: Are they useful? Are they used often enough? What do you think are the benefits and downfalls to prescribed fires?

It's your turn to take a stance.

Read the editorial section of your local paper and then write your own editorial on a wildfire issue in your area or another area. Be sure to offer your opinion on the issue but also support your opinion with facts and reasons explaining why you think what you think.